So I tried Unity 4 (installed in new directory rather than over 3.x).
I created a new project with Character Controller and Scripts packages.
Console then shows 6 warnings - 5 are about obselete functions, 1 is about bitwise operation ‘|’ in ThirdPersonController.
Now none of these are game-breaking but it doesn’t inspire confidence in the product when the included scripts give warnings.
(Also it doesn’t help that when I come to search in the forums for answers the autocomplete box pops up suggestions over what I am writing (over the search box) on almost any browser!)
I can report bugs but surely these are too obvious to not be in line to be fixed?
Yes, and they should be updated, hence the bug report. (In particular the bitwise thing has been around for a long time and would take hardly any effort to fix.)